As an American, Is there a way to not be on his list?

He's going to say his people have to run blue states, and if they don't go along with it he'll try to say their elections don't count.

Then have congress just not come into new session to seat anyone.

Even if the article didn't explicitly talk about it it's weird how many people really can't see that coming and legitimately think he'll start following both letter and spirit of the law.

Yeah this will be shot down so fast, I’m not worried at all

Pretty much, but as others have pointed out elsewhere, it's difficult for him to rig the midterms for a number of reasons. It is entirely possible that both the House and the Senate will lose their majorities, even with all these obvious efforts to rig and cheat.

He also cheats on his wives, cheats on his taxes, cheats taxpayers out of their own money by funneling back into himself, cheats his contractors out of payments.... It's literally all he knows. Every accusation is a confession.

Y'all better be doing this. You gotta get rid of this guy, I'd love to come back 🙂

It also means that you, as a voter, have zero LOCAL recourse to get yourself added back on to the allowed list, should you ever find you have been kicked off it. And that is by design.

In most (all? I don't know) states, if there is any problem with your registration or ID at the polling place you are allowed to submit a provisional ballot, which is then counted after the problem is resolved, or discarded if it is not.

But with a federal -- physically controlled in Washington, DC -- list of allowed voters they can kick whoever they want off the voter rolls, whenever they want, for any reason they want or even no reason at all, and have that be the final word.

EVERYONE is on the disallowed voter list until and unless specifically added, by unnamed operators, in some completely opaque process, answerable to either no one at all, or just to some rubber-stamping kangaroo court in DC.

By contrast, the framers of the Constitution very specifically and deliberately left all election matters to the states, because they never wanted that concentration of power in the federal. Coming out of a very out of touch and physically distant monarchy they wanted people to never be too far from the mechanics of their own elections, so they very carefully wrote it the way they did.

And here we are.

saves act is more than likely to hurt republicans overall, since likely the places that only issue passports are far and few between.

Rules of the comm say you have to use the exact title of the article. I had taken that off and then realized it had to stay if the post was to remain up.

Yeah, I think it's safe to say that no one wants to watch an orange pustule erupt.

Depends on what people do with it. If state governments comply, then it works. If they don't, it doesn't.

I suspect some states might comply, but others probably not.

Tell that to DOGE and the destruction it left in its wake

This just happened yesterday. Take a deep breath already

kids don't do that now

Most people probably aren't aware of it yet.

Lemmy gives us a very skewed perspective on how informed the general population is.

But there are already lawsuits being prepared.

Seems like more people should be upset about this, but I guess we’ve all given up on democracy.

You, maybe. Certainly nowhere near ALL. I was out there on Saturday. It's FAR from over.

I still can’t understand why you need to register to vote? I mean, is that really democracy?

I literally do not understand what this question is trying to say, unless it is coming from a profound misunderstanding of what registering to vote actually means.

In the US, all elections are run by the individual states, across a land mass that is bigger than western Europe, and smaller only than Russia or China, and our voting process goes back to the late 18th century. This process actually worked really well for over two hundred years. It is only with the advent of electronic voting in the 1990s that there has been any real problem with our systems.

But regardless, both back in the 1700s and now, registering to vote in the US is simply a matter of providing your identity and address of residence to your state's electoral board in accordance with that state's laws. In return your constitutional right to vote in elections is affirmed by your state, again in accordance with that state's processes, so that when you show up to vote your vote is properly validated and counted.

So given that understanding, what does registering to vote have to do with any system of government?

What's not democratic about being affirmed as a lawful voter by the state where you reside, in a country where it is impossible to know all your neighbors by sight and where there even now are vast stretches of rural land that have few to no inhabitants?

Doesn't every country have some electoral census? I know only about Poland and Spain because that's where I voted but in both countries you register in the census to indicate where you will be voting. Based on that you get assigned to a voting location that they have on their list. You go there, show them ID, they mark on the list that you voted and you get to place your vote.

The main problem with US is that they, like some developing country, don't have a proper national ID system. In modern countries you get assigned an ID number at birth (PESEL in Poland, DNI in Spain), every single person has a national ID and you use it to identify yourself. No one says "you can't require ID for voting people a lot of people don't have it". People being unable to identify themselves is a 3rd world issue.